If you’ve followed the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you probably know that Nigel Hayes of the University of Wisconsin has endeared himself to the nation because of his astonishment that a stenographer was so good at her job, which is transcribing interviews.

So at a news conference a week or so ago, he mixed in the words “cattywampus, onomatopoeia, antidisestablishmentarianism, soliloquy, quandary, zephyr, xylophone.”

She spelled them all right in the transcript.

So the campus bookstore ordered this shirt to sell.

Cute, eh?

Yahoo Sports reports the T-shirt has been pulled because of fears it violated the NCAA’s “amateur” policy, even though the bookstore is not run by the University of Wisconsin.

About the blogger

Bob Collins has been with Minnesota Public Radio since 1992, emigrating to Minnesota from Massachusetts. He was senior editor of news in the ’90s, ran MPR’s political unit, created the MPR News regional website, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started the two most popular blogs in the history of MPR and every day laments that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

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